Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society
About the Book Series
Management, Organizations and Society represents innovative work grounded in new realities; addressing issues crucial to an understanding of the contemporary world. This is the world of organized societies, where boundaries between formal and informal, public and private, local and global organizations have been displaced or vanished along with other nineteenth century dichotomies and oppositions. Management, apart from becoming a specialised profession for a growing number of people, is an everyday activity for most members of modern societies. Management, Organizations and Society will address these contemporary dynamics of transformation in a manner that transcends disciplinary boundaries, with work which will appeal to researchers, students and practitioners alike.
Foucault and Managerial Governmentality: Rethinking the Management of Populations, Organizations and Individuals
1st Edition
Edited
By Alan McKinlay, Eric Pezet
August 23, 2018
In the last two decades there has been an explosion of research inspired by Michel Foucault’s suggestion of a new concept, ‘governmentality’. The distinctive feature of modern governmentality is that across all sorts of fields, rule is predicated upon the active subject as the vehicle through ...
Imagining Organizations: Performative Imagery in Business and Beyond
1st Edition
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By Paolo Quattrone, Nigel Thrift, Chris Mclean, Francois-Regis Puyou
August 23, 2018
Organizations rely extensively upon a myriad of images and pictorial representations such as budgets, schedules, reports, graphs, and organizational charts to name but a few. Visual images play an integral role in the process of organizing. This volume argues that images in organizations are ‘...
The Organization of the Expert Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Andreas werr, Staffan Furusten
August 07, 2018
It is often claimed that we live in an expert society, a society where more and more individuals take expert roles in increasingly narrow fields. In contrast to more traditional experts most of these new experts lack generally accepted mechanisms for the certification and legitimation of their ...
Untold Stories in Organizations
1st Edition
Edited
By Michal Izak, Linda Hitchin, David Anderson
August 07, 2018
The field of organizational storytelling research is productive, vibrant and diverse. Over three decades we have come to understand how organizations are not only full of stories but also how stories are actively making, sustaining and changing organizations. This edited collection contributes to ...
Organizing through Empathy
1st Edition
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By Kathryn Pavlovich, Keiko Krahnke
August 06, 2018
Empathy dissolves the boundaries between self and others, and feelings of altruism towards others are activated. This process results in more compassionate and caring contexts, as well as helping others in times of suffering. This book provides evidence from neuroscience and quantum physics that it...
Pierre Bourdieu, Organization, and Management
1st Edition
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By Ahu Tatli, Mustafa Ozbilgin, Mine Karatas-Ozkan
August 06, 2018
Pierre Bourdieu, the French sociologist, philosopher, and anthropologist, has been widely studied and analyzed in academic circles, particularly in sociology, where his ideas about power relations in social life helped to define the contemporary field. While many other sociological theories and ...
Sexual Orientation at Work: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Fiona Colgan, Nick Rumens
August 06, 2018
Sexual Orientation at Work: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives brings together contemporary international research on sexual orientation and draws out its implications for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and heterosexual employees and managers. It provides new empirical and theoretical ...
Advancing Organizational Theory in a Complex World
1st Edition
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By Jane Qiu, Ben Luo, Chris Jackson, Karin Sanders
June 08, 2018
While research in organisational studies has become increasingly rich and complex, organisation researchers are constantly challenged by the growing quest for theoretical advancement and innovation. To conduct theoretically rigorous and innovative research, contemporary researchers and students ...
Boundary-Spanning in Organizations: Network, Influence and Conflict
1st Edition
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By Janice Langan Fox, Cary Cooper
June 08, 2018
In more recent times, the essence of the gatekeeper's role has moved to the 'boundary spanner' - a systems thinker who understands the specific needs and interests of the organization and whose greatest asset is their ability to move across and through the formal and informal features of the modern...
Counter-Narratives and Organization
1st Edition
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By Sanne Frandsen, Timothy Kuhn, Marianne Wolff Lundholt
June 08, 2018
Counter-Narratives and Organization brings the concept of "counter-narrative" into an organizational context, illuminating these complex elements of communication as intrinsic yet largely unexplored aspect of organizational storytelling. Departing from dialogical, emergent and processual ...
Critical Management Studies: Global Voices, Local Accents
1st Edition
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By Christopher Grey, Isabelle Huault, Véronique Perret, Laurent Taskin
June 08, 2018
Critical Management Studies (CMS) is often dated from the publication of an edited volume bearing that name (Alvesson and Willmott, 1992). In the two decades that have followed, CMS has been remarkably successful in establishing itself not just as a ‘term’ but as a recognizable tradition or ...
Doing Organizational Ethnography
1st Edition
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By Anne Reff Pedersen, Didde Humle
June 08, 2018
This book presents a new way of understanding organizational ethnography due to its strong emphasis on what the word organizational means in organizational ethnography. In the past five years, a new organizational studies research field has developed involving organizational ethnographies, which is...